Night, no wind.

The capital of the fallen river province, the city lord's mansion.

In the evening, Ou Jiarong was busy with government affairs, and he wanted to have a drink with Li Mu, but he heard a report from his subordinates: Li Muqi and his wife were visiting the market. There was no way, Ou Jiarong asked the cook to make a few side dishes, and poured himself a drink on the stone table in this courtyard.

When the wine was half-drunk, the gate of the City Lord's Mansion was suddenly opened from the outside. Ou Jiarong looked up...... Li Mu and Nangong Rou didn't take Chu Lu either, and the three of them walked into the City Lord's Mansion compound side by side.

"Brother, brother and sister, this is ......" Ou Jiarong felt that his brain was a little confused.

Li Mu introduced: "This is the son of Boyan, the young man of the early green. Chu Lu, this is the Demon Sect Ou Jiarong Banner Master. ”

Chu Lu hugged his fists and said: "I have long admired the name of the European flag master, and I can see it today, your cultivation is really unfathomable. ”

"Polite, polite. "Ou Jiarong's brain is still a little short-circuited.

Li Mu had just finished eating, but he was already thirsty after grinding with Uncle Seventeen for a long time, and he just saw wine and food on the stone table and sat down, eating and drinking by himself. On the other hand, Ou Jiarong is not as calm as Li Mu!

Why?

The biggest obstacle for him to take over the Tianyu Empire this time is Boyan's power!

Who is Chu Green?

Son of Boyondsoft!!

He didn't expect that Li Mu would arrest Boyan's son on the first day he came here!!

This...... Didn't you force Boyan to be the enemy of the Demon Sect!?

Ou Jiarong always thought that Li Mu was out of tune, but he was very principled, and now it seems that he ...... Wait a minute. Ou Jiarong took a closer look. How can the attitude of Chu Lu and Li Mu be similar to that of an old friend who has been separated for many years?

Could it be that Chu Lu was not captured by Li Mu?

"The first green child. ”

"Lord of the European flag. ”

The attitude of the first green is very low. This made Ou Jiarong even more confused.

He asked tentatively, "......What is the relationship between you and Lord Li Muqi?"

"Oh. I am Li Mu Shaoxia's meat ticket. Chu Lu said calmly.

However, these words were not so pleasant to Ou Jiarong's ears. Li Mu, this guy. Sure enough, he caught the son of Boyan back!

He was about to have a seizure, but when the words came to his mouth, they turned into a tone of discussion again, no matter what, Li Mu was on the same level as him in terms of identity. Ou Jiarong cleared his throat, "Brother, why didn't you discuss with your brother in advance, why did you arrest the young man of Chu Lu?"

Li Mu smiled and didn't speak.

Chu Lu hurriedly explained: "I wasn't captured by Li Mugongzi, I made an exchange with Brother Yuanbai. ”

"Yuanbai?

Chu Lu blinked: "The edge of the Kunlun Mountain Sword Sect." Well, there's also Uncle Seventeen. ”

"Uh......" Ou Jiarong's brain completely crashed!

A quarter of an hour later.

Everyone sat around the stone table and pushed the cup to change the lamp, Ou Jiarong smiled bitterly: "Brother, you said that you were so shocked, but you frightened the elder brother." ”

Li Mu teased: "Brother, are you afraid of Boyan's power?"

"This ......" Ou Jiarong suddenly stopped talking, Li Mu's sentence just hit his point!

Is Ou Jiarong afraid of Beyondsoft's power?

To be honest, I'm afraid!

Very scared!

The power of the Demon Cult is not comparable to that of Boyan at all. If the Demon Sect is willing, it will be able to level the forces of Boyan in a matter of minutes! However, Ou Jiarong cannot represent the Demon Sect. He can only represent one banner under the Demon Cult.

With his men, if there is really a conflict with Boyondsoft. There is no suspense at all, and there are not even pants left for Beyondsoft to beat Ou Jiarong!

The key question is whether Beyondsoft dares to do anything to Au Jiarong?

Don't dare!

Beyondsoft is also afraid of the Demon Sect behind Ou Jiarong!

As a result, people on both sides of them dare not offend each other, let alone have any intersection with each other. Think about it, as long as there is an intersection, there may be a conflict, and you will be bullied by the other party, is this tone out or not!?

They can all restrain themselves, but who can be sure of the other party's attitude?

This led to Ou Jiarong's frightened mentality when he came here to take over the territory!

Nangong Rou went back to the room to rest very early, and the three of them drank until late at night before returning to the room to rest. According to Ou Jiarong: There is no need to be strict and strict, just maintain an indulgent attitude. Presumably, Hatsulu would not have done such a thing as running away at all.

Li Mu did not object.

And that's exactly what happened.

That night, Ou Jiarong ordered someone to arrange a room for Chu Lu, and the next morning, Chu Lu got up early and drank tea in the courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion, and had no intention of leaving.

Li Mu got up and said hello to Chu Lu, and went to the back kitchen. There is no way, the half year spent in the mining area can make him miserable, he has nothing to eat, he has nothing to drink, and now Li Mu is even more greedy than Li Caier's sisters.

After a while, Ou Jiarong also got up, or he got up early, but he was just in the room to deal with government affairs.

After breakfast, Li Mu was about to go back to the room, but was stopped by Ou Jiarong.

Li Mu followed Ou Jiarong to his study. Ou Jiarong sighed again and again, pointed to the information on the bookcase, and said, "Brother, this trip to the Tianyu Empire is going to be sinned. You have to help the old man. ”

Li Mu leaned over and took a look, and all the financial statements of the Tianyu Empire were on the bookcase. Among them, over the years, nearly half of the financial taxes of the empire have actually gone into the pockets of the Kunlun Mountain Sword Sect and the Boyan forces!

"This ......" Li Mu was also surprised.

"And this. Ou Jiarong took out another table from the bookcase, and explained while showing him to Li Mu: "According to the current statement of the empire, it is to continue to divide half of the fiscal revenue in the coming year, but this money is not for the Demon Sect, but for the Demon Sect, the Kunlun Mountain Sword Sect, and the Boyan family!"

Li Mu knew that the 'money' Ou Jiarong was talking about was not silver taels, but spiritual liquid.

Money on the rivers and lakes is also a general term for spiritual liquid.

"I can accept the power of Boyan, but the Kunlun Mountain Sword Sect has been beaten out of the Heavenly Jade Empire by the Demon Sect, and they still worship the Kunlun Mountain Sword Sect?"

Ou Jiarong smiled bitterly: "The Tianyu royal family is afraid that one day the Kunlun Mountain Sword Sect will fight back." After all, the last war ended with the defeat of the Demon Cult. It's not that they can't understand this...... Not. Brother. As you think. What are we going to do now?"

"How to do it?" Li Mu sneered: "If I were you, I would go directly to the palace of the Tianyu Empire and ask clearly in front of their little emperor who I was messing with!"

"Forehead ......" Ou Jiarong swallowed his saliva, dumbfounded.

Li Mu continued: "It's numb. If the Tianyu Imperial Family dares to choose the Kunlun Mountain Sword Sect, Lao Tzu will level his royal family now and completely bring the Tianyu Empire into the pocket of our Demon Sect! Then I'm sorry, whoever I love, no one will give face! If he wants this money, okay, ask Lao Tzu for it!"

"Is this really good?" said Ou Jiarong Ai Ai.

Li Mu pouted: "Brother, your style of acting is doomed to the end of this matter, after all, this is your business." I'm just telling you how I act, well, my temper isn't inherently bad. The so-called soldier bears a nest of bears. I'm the big brother, if my personality is so bearish. How can you take your little brother?"

"And this. Ou Jiarong took out another report: "According to the usual practice, all the taxes of this Fallen River Province where we are stationed should belong to the Demon Sect. But if you look at the data on this report......"

Ou Jiarong was extremely angry: "As early as five days before we came here, the two bastards Huo Nianshan and Liang Hanfeng received the tax revenue of the Fallen River Province for 3372 years!!" After speaking, he burst into a foul mouth: "What the hell!"

Li Mu was stunned: "Brother, how many years is it now?"

"The wind has been on the continent for 223 years. ”

Li Mu almost choked to death with his own saliva!

These guys can really play ruthlessly, and they actually received taxes three thousand years later!?

"That'...... What about the money?"

"It was taken away by the people of the Kunlun Mountain Sword Sect!"

Li Mu's face also had an angry look on his face: "Grandma, if you knew earlier, you wouldn't want a million drops of spiritual liquid, or three or five million drops!"

Ou Jiarong smiled bitterly, this time he came to the Tianyu Empire to gain the most likely Li Mu. Who let him be tired of sorting out government affairs like his third grandson in the City Lord's Mansion, and didn't go out shopping with Li Mu?

Ay......

It's really more popular than people.

Li Mu thought for a while and said: "Let's not care about the tax for the time being, since we are ruthless, we also have a way to be ruthless." What about other things besides taxes?"

"Where?"

"In addition to finance, the military-political aspect. ”

"I was about to tell you this. Ou Jiarong weakly flipped out another report: "There is no big mistake on the side of government affairs, but there are some problems in military power." You see, all the soldiers of the garrison have not been paid for five years, and even the most basic ordnance and supplies have been stopped by the empire. Ay...... The problem we are facing now is one word: poverty!"

Li Mu also smiled bitterly.

Poor, but there is really no way!

Taxes are not, well, not collected. In order to stabilize the mood of the common people, the people will be exempted from taxes for another thousand years!

There are no taxes for 3,000 years, and there is still a thousand years left?

Just be a good person, at least you can get the support of the people, and you won't be alone here.

On the military side, how much money is in arrears?

It doesn't matter how much he wants!

The Legion is gone!

Disband the Legion starting today!

As for the arrears of military salaries?

Am I in arrears?

No way?

Well, whoever owes you will ask for it, as long as you don't ask me!

These two problems are solved, and only the two dead fat men of Huo Nianshan and Liang Hanfeng are left. These two guys colluded with the Kunlun Mountain Sword Sect to give the Demon Sect such a big loss, the key is that these two goods will not run away after the Demon Sect is finished?

Do you think that the Demon Cult is all kind people?

Good!

Let me show you what a kind person is today!

Li Mu immediately came out of Ou Jiarong's study and said loudly: "Chengcub!"

"My lord!" the cub ran from the courtyard as if he were smoking.

Li Mu pointed outside and said, "Go, get me the two old things Huo Nianshan and Liang Hanfeng back......!" Well, on the grounds of collusion with the Kunlun Mountain Sword Sect!"

"This ......" Cheng cub hesitated, he was looking for Ou Jiarong's figure.

Li Mu didn't pay attention to his movements. After thinking for a while, he added: "When they are caught." Tell the people. In order to show its closeness to the people, the Demon Sect will temporarily administer the Fallen River Province, and from today onwards, it will exempt the taxes of a thousand years ago!

"Brother......" Ou Jiarong came out of the study: "But the taxes have been received for three thousand years, and we will exempt them for another thousand years, and the people are not stupid......

"Aren't they stupid?

"Huh?" Ou Jiarong and Cheng Cub were both blindfolded.

Li Mu suddenly smiled: "So stupid." The people are not stupid, we can pretend to be stupid! Tell the people directly, and give you a tax exemption for a thousand years! The people are still not grateful to Dade?"

Cheng Cub's face was full of bitterness: "My lord." We can pretend to be stupid for a day, two days, and we can't keep pretending to be stupid, right?"

"It's okay to pretend to be stupid for this day!" Li Mu swore frankly.

"Then ...... tomorrow"

Li Mu patted them on the shoulder: "Today's words have been released, tomorrow, what's going on tomorrow? Are we collecting taxes for more than 3,000 years? Aren't we? We've confiscated a drop of spiritual liquid from the people, right?"

"No ......"

"That's right! It was accepted before, it was a matter of the people in the past, what does it have to do with us? We just need to show a pro-people attitude!"

Ou Jiarong's eyes were shining: "Do you understand?"

Cheng cub nodded vigorously: "Understood!"

"Understand that you are not going yet!"

"Gotcha!" ran out of the cub as if he were smoking.

Li Mu and Ou Jiarong returned to the study.

Ou Jiarong laughed loudly: "Haha, brother, the problem that plagued my brother all night will be solved by you in a while." Remarkable!"

"I don't think I've solved any problems for you. Li Mu sat down dejectedly: "The taxes can't be collected, and the army's salaries can't be paid." And I don't know how to divide the share of the royal family...... Hey, all the ideas I've given you today are bad ideas, and there's no way around it. ”

Ou Jiarong also knew that Li Mu's method could not solve the problem at all, it was just a rogue trick.

But at this time, only this kind of rogue trick can work.

After thinking about it, Li Mu suddenly smiled again.

"What are you laughing at?"

"Brother, I said that our Demon Sect is not short of this little spiritual liquid, why are we going to work here for most of the day?"

Ou Jiarong was stunned, but he also laughed loudly, and pointed at Li Mu and said: "Haha! You kid, this sentence has been in my heart for a long time." I'm here to take over the territory, and now that the territory has been received, as long as the Beyondsoft side doesn't make trouble for us, won't we understand when the time comes, and the territory will be returned to the cave owner in its entirety?"

The two glanced at each other and laughed out loud at the same time: "Haha, haha, hahahaha......"

Chapter 416 [Dark Battle!]

The days go by.

One day.

Three days.

Five days later, in the evening.

Li Muzheng and Nangong Rou were drinking tea and chatting in the room, when a subtle bird call suddenly came from outside. Nangong Rou was stunned and said in a low voice: "Xiao Lang?"

"It's definitely him, I'll go out and have a look. Li Mu put on his clothes, went out and performed light skills, following the direction of the source of the sound.

Outside the city.

Grove.

"Ah Mu!" Dao Nu, Xiao Lang, Xiang Xiuwu and Jiang Cheng are all here.

Li Mu was puzzled: "What's going on?"

The four of them came to find themselves together, which is probably not a good thing.

Sure enough, the knife girl said, "Two women in night clothes have just entered the city. ”

Li Mu blinked: "Woman, what does it have to do with me?"

He went to the City Lord's Mansion and saw Chu Lu. ”

Li Mu couldn't be calm now! Hurriedly asked, "What did they say?"

"I don't know. The sword girl analyzed: "Those two women in night clothes are not very old, they should only be in their twenties, but their cultivation is extremely high, and the "Breath Gathering Method" has already cultivated to the third level of the Great Sage Realm. This time, they only stayed for a moment when they went to the City Lord's Mansion, and even if they spoke fast, they could speak about thirty words at most. ”

"Say thirty words...... What can you say?" Li Mu fell into deep thought. Isn't it that Boyan wants his son to escape back?

It shouldn't be!

If that were the case, the two women who were in the flow of physical skills just now should have rescued him, not as simple as saying a few words.

"In which direction did they go when they came out?"

"I don't see it. ”

Li Mu looked at the knife girl with wide eyes: "You didn't see clearly?"

The knife girl smiled bitterly: "I really didn't see it clearly. Although their cultivation is not high. But the anti-reconnaissance capabilities are extremely strong. I've been missing them since they came out of the City Lord's Mansion. Well. In other words. If I hadn't stayed near the City Lord's Mansion early in the morning, I wouldn't have even noticed them. ”

"Things seem to be getting a little bigger. Li Mu patted his head: "Okay, you don't have to worry about this matter, I know it." ”

Li Mu turned around to leave, but Xiao Lang stopped him and said, "Let Jiang Cheng follow you." ”

"I ......"

Li Mu was just about to speak, but Xiao Lang continued: "You should take it as a reassurance to us." ”

"Okay, I'll give you a reassurance, Lao Jiang. Let's go. ”

"Hey. Jiang Cheng followed behind Li Mu, and the two of them re-performed their light skills and returned to the courtyard of the City Lord's Mansion.

As soon as I walked into the house, I saw Chu Lu sitting at the stone table in the house drinking tea. This guy, since he came to the City Lord's Mansion, has been sitting here drinking tea every day, and sometimes he can even sit here all day!

From the time the sun rises to the time the sun sets, I sit and drink tea here!

Don't go to the toilet either!

Chu Lu glanced up at Li Mu, and was about to say hello, but he was suddenly stunned: "Li Mu Shaoxia." This is ......"

Jiang Cheng hugged his fists and said, "Li Mu's junior brother, Jiang Cheng." ”

Chu Lu also hugged his fists and said: "Chu Lu." ”

When the two say hello to each other. Li Mu sat next to Chu Lu one by one, picked up an empty teacup and poured tea on his own. After taking a sip of tea, Li Mu suddenly said, "Chu Lu, you seem to be a physical flow, right?"

"Well, yes, I'm practicing the Law of Breathing. ”

"Oh......" Li Mu asked as if he was casually asking, "What realm have you cultivated now?" Hehe, it just so happens that I am also a cultivator of the "Breath Gathering Method", so let's have time to learn from each other?"

"Is Li Mu Shaoxia's cultivation also the method of breathing? This is really such a coincidence! Hmm, my cultivation is mediocre, and now I can only enter the fourth early stage of the Great Sage Realm. ”

Li Mu smiled: "Then you are much stronger than me, my 'Breath Gathering Method' is still stagnant in the first and late stages of the Great Sage Realm." ”

Chu Lu's face was full of disbelief expressions: "Li Shaoxia, don't tease me, a major holy realm can capture Yuanbai?"

Li Mu smiled and said nothing.

Chu Lu continued, "As far as I know, Yuan Bai's cultivation should be the fifth middle stage of the Great Saint Realm...... Well, I observed my surroundings that day, and there was not the slightest trace of a fight, which means that you captured Yuanbai within three moves. ”

Li Mu also smiled: "You observe very carefully, but I am not as strong as you imagined." The reason why we were able to capture Chenyuanbai that day was mainly because our husband and wife joined forces. ”

Chu Lu still said he didn't believe it.

Li Mu was noncommittal. The cow can't force his head if he doesn't drink water, and he can't help it if he doesn't believe Li Mu. The two drank tea for a while, and Chu Lu took the initiative to say: "Two young heroes, please use it slowly, it's not too early, I'm going back to the room to rest." ”

After sending Chu Lu away, Li Mu said in a low voice: "I don't see any difference in him?"

Jiang Cheng smiled bitterly: "Senior brother, don't you think he's too low-key?"

"And then?"

"He's the son of Boyan, what kind of person is Boyan, that's a hero. How could his son be an ordinary person. I suspect now that he was here for purpose. ”

Li Mu patted him on the shoulder: "Okay, don't be suspicious." Let's go, I'll arrange a place for you to stay." He pulled Jiang Cheng up, dragged his arm and walked to the wing: "Go back and sleep well, you have suffered a lot of sins in the past few days by sleeping outside every day, right?"

Jiang Cheng: "......"

After settling Jiang Cheng, Li Mu also went back to the room and took off his clothes...... Well, instead of resting, I changed into a night suit!

"Li Mu, you ......"

"Shh

Nangong Rou hurriedly silenced.

came to Li Mu's side, lowered his voice and said, "Why are you wearing night clothes?"

Li Mu grabbed Nangong Rou's wrist and said, "After I go out for a while, you try to make some movement to make others mistakenly think that I am in the room." ”

Nangong Rou glanced at Li Mu deeply, and said, "You haven't told me what you're going out for?"

"The first green might be a bit of a problem, I'll go out and have a look. ”

"Uh...... Then be careful!"

"Don't worry. Li Mu put on his night clothes neatly, opened the door through a gap, and after making sure that there was no one outside, he directly performed the magic skill of shrinking the ground into inches, and came to the shadow of a dead corner in the courtyard in one step!

Over there, Nangong closed the door softly and silently, and then she lit all the candles in the room, and the room was suddenly bright!

Li Mu in the shadow was stunned, and couldn't understand what the hell she was doing.

Shouldn't all the candles in the room be blown out?

The next moment, he saw Nangong Rou's mind.

Nangong Rou put up the clothes that Li Mu had just taken off with something, and the upper body of the clothes leaned on the head of the bed, and then Nangong Rou sat on the edge of the bed and made a massage posture.

Looking inside from the outside, it's really the shadow of two people!

The most important thing is that Nangong Rou was talking while massaging, as for what Li Mu was talking about, he couldn't hear clearly, Nangong Rou deliberately blurred his voice. It feels like it's too far away to be heard.

Soon, about a quarter of an hour later, Nangong Rou said in the room: "Sleep really fast, I haven't finished talking yet......" while saying, she blew out the fire and candles in the room one by one.

She also went to chuang herself to rest.

The entire City Lord's Mansion immediately fell silent.

Half an hour.

An hour.

An hour and a half.

On the fourth watch, finally, the door of the early green room was opened, and a figure in a night suit came out of the room, flew off the wall, jumped directly onto the roof, and flew towards the backyard of the city lord's mansion.

Li Mu, who was waiting in the shadows, also picked up the "Breath Gathering Method" at the same time, and quietly followed behind the figure, all the way to the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion. Along the way, Li Mu didn't dare to make the slightest sound, so he followed this black shadow all the way to the backyard of the City Lord's Mansion!

There it is......

Cell!

Li Mu calmed down, he remembered that when he sent Huo Nianshan and Liang Hanfeng here a few days ago, he also personally interrogated the two of them, and he didn't find that there were other people in this cell besides the two of them. Could it be ...... This guy is here for these two people!?

With this in mind, Li Mu flashed into the cell, hid his body behind the wall, and turned his face sideways to look inside......

The guy in his night suit walked straight to the front of a cell. Huo Nianshan's voice immediately came from the cell: "My lord, save us!"

"I'm here to save you...... the man in the night suit said, but Li Mu didn't hear his voice. This guy actually used the power of the law to change his vocal cords!

Immediately after, Liang Hanfeng said, "My lord, the spiritual liquid you ordered me to bury was already buried long before I was caught!"

"Where's the location?"

Liang Hanfeng said: "My lord, I can't hear your voice clearly, in order to make sure that it is correct, please tell me the amount of spiritual liquid?"

"One million million drops. ”

Liang Hanfeng immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "My lord, the location of the spiritual liquid is in the old crooked neck tree outside the West City Gate......"

Before Liang Hanfeng's words were finished, this guy in a night suit suddenly pulled out a soft sword and stabbed it directly into Liang Hanfeng's chest! All this came too suddenly, don't say that Liang Hanfeng and Huo Nianshan, even Li Mu, who was watching from the sidelines, didn't react!

Immediately afterwards, this person did not stop, the soft sword in his hand came out of his hand, and directly slashed through Huo Nianshan's throat!

I didn't even leave a single live mouth!!

Li Mu took a deep breath, perhaps the sound of his inhalation alarmed the man in black, and the man in black slapped his palm directly on the vent more than two meters high, slapping off the iron fence above, and his body drilled out along the small vent!

"Damn!" Li Mu scolded himself secretly, and turned around to chase after him, just the moment he turned around......

"Two o'clock...... Two o'clock in the hour...... Two quarters of an hour......"

Li Mu followed the subtle voice to trace the past, but it was Liang Hanfeng who died in the cell. This guy spat blood from his mouth, but kept pounding in his mouth: "Two hours and two o'clock." ”

Two o'clock?

What do you mean?

Li Mu blinked, he didn't understand the meaning. Simply left it behind, turned around and chased out of the cell...... (To be continued.) )